Fort Popham

Fort Popham

Image of Fort Popham, Hunnewell's Point, and Popham Village, Maine. Visible in image: A view from the Kennebec River of Hunnewell's Point and Popham Village. Visible, from far right: The Popham Beach Steamboat Company pier, which extended into Atkins Bay from behind Hunnewell's Point, with a small steamboat--either DAMARIN or ELDORADO--docked at the end; Fort Popham; Fort Popham Light; the fort's boathouse or shed; the Hiram Stevens house (in the distance); the old Clark house (built up on the rock, quarters for the Fort's caretaking Ordnance Sergeant); the Perkins-Stacey general store, with the church's steeple behind and Clarence Perkins's little clam-shucking shack in front; the Haley & Marr general store; the Haley house (and the big Perkins-Stacey-Spinney house, with cupola, behind); and finally, the Riverside Hotel.